The Texas Bucket List - The Turkey Leg Hut in Houston

It's time for the Texas Bucket List portion of the week and this week we're on the H schedule at a little place that always has a line and some amazing

turkey

legs. We're at the Turkey Leg Cabin on the southwest side of Third Ward. A few exits from the center you will find an excellent restaurant dedicated to tasty poultry that fills up quite quickly. All these people come here for the food and when you see what makes these

turkey

legs so talked about, it's no wonder they gobble them up. I love it, I mean, from the first time I came, the hockey paws are smoked to perfection, the most unique thing I've done in Houston when you come here, it's just an experience, that's what they come with.

Nakia Price and her husband Lynn started the turkey business in In 2015, the former University of Houston basketball player was working for a litigation firm when she and her husband decided to start selling food in their family's parking lot, perfectly located across from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, at what point did you decide, hey turkey legs? they're my thing and it doesn't make sense, it was literally something that just happened, we started doing rodeo season, we were transporting people instead to the rodeo and we just had a barbecue pit at the foot of the parking lot and you know, something happens now.

If you've ever been to the rodeo, you know this smell these dream thighs can give off a great turkey leg it's not your average turkey leg literally these turkey legs fall off the bone we're going to try the impossible, lift one leg up turkey leg hut and he just lifts it to the right oh no I can't do that here oh my gosh but nikki is smoking hot legs involve a secret seasoning that Lynn wasn't too sure about, turns out he sent people to a frolicking frenzy. I thought we shouldn't season his Hercules and I told him we should, so I was actually filming my season on the turkey legs and people started coming up and saying we want the turkey leg with the seasoning on top and he kind of looked at me and I looked at him and us and he's a God, as if the amazing taste of the food wasn't enough, Glynn took the turkey to the next level, taking perfectly seasoned provisions and piling things on top, he said, yeah, come on. just do it and see what happens and there it happens and then came our number one seller, which is the shrimp alfredo circular stout.

You heard that, shrimp Alfredo, stuffed turkey legs, yeah, it's amazing, yeah, yeah, but it doesn't stop there. I have Stuffed Legs with Hennessy Glazed Dirty Rice and Stuffed Cajun Crab Mac and Cheese. You don't need anything else to know what I mean. It's like you have a guilty pleasure that always makes you feel good, but it's worth how many turkey legs you eat. guys selling today this can take a little time to add up on our busiest days, we sell about 2,800 turkey legs a day, oh yeah, and on our non-busy days, like during the week, which maybe Tuesday or Wednesday, we still sell about 2,000, yes. a lot, no turkey is safe, no turkey, no matter the season, no matter, no.

Did I mention the constant line of people trying to get their hands on these lines of turkey legs here every day? It's that crazy if they're real when you're looking at the turkey leg and you're like, okay, how do you imagine stuffing it like you just put it under there? No, I can't tell you everything, okay, we did a turkey trot backwards to see how much of the turkey leg process we could take and it wasn't much you guys are pretty secretive about this process, we are, it's a process that has a patent pending and all of our employees signed confidentiality agreements, all yeah, but it's that serious, that's serious, yeah, wow. that's amazing, so we're picking up the process in the middle of yes, almost like for the toy, so okay, now the turkey legs have already been seasoned, they've already been seasoned, well, they did it, this is the last one process, this is the last step worth simmering, okay, yes, they cook for hours, hours, yes, it smells like the real thing here, from here they go to the kitchen, okay, now, this is where the magic to be able to try it, I promise not to give it. let's get any secrets out of the way so it's time to pull up a chair and get ready to eat so here we are with a stuffed turkey leg this one is shrimp alfredo and if you look at it it looks like a shrimp alfredo dish which happens to be in a turkey leg that's crazy oh my gosh it just comes off oh man look at that turkey leg literally well go ahead go ahead grab some alfredo sauce dirty rice a bowl of shrimp you see that drop, here's the kitchen H down, no It didn't take me long to realize that I could never give up this food cold turkey.

It's amazing when someone tries to cheat on you late for the first time. What do they tell you? Yes, it's not what they say, it's their facial expression. I'm really trying not to. make a silly face, what is making a silly face, oh my gosh, the Texas sized turkey leg itself is excellent, the smoked meat is moist and delicious, but then you put all those ingredients on top of it and it just takes it out of this world. the flavor the seasoning the way they mix it I mean, it's very rare that you can go somewhere and get food and you don't have to do anything, but here you just sit there, it's definitely delicious turkey, all different varieties of thighs of Turkey. lemon pepper, the alfredo, the shrimp, the dirty rice and then it doesn't get any better than that, what do you attribute your late night and early morning success to?

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